Just an info: I spent a day chasing, and on the Bioware forums - apparently when NWN2 checks for a 3D vid card it comes back bad - someone suggested that it's their imbeded back level DX checking code. Anyway, prob has been posted over on Bioware and will probably be fixed in 6 months :o) . THIS IS NOT AN MS PROB - it apparently occurs on and after build 7057. All other games seem to work just fine, from what I read. I tried NWN and it works fine. (I did even see this reported as a Linux prob half a year ago. heehee) So please close this and leave it as info! Thanks! Kris